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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_EBOLA_HOSPITAL_STAFF?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-10-13-18-45-19

[quote]DALLAS (AP) -- They drew his blood, put tubes down his throat and wiped up his diarrhea. They analyzed his urine and wiped saliva from his lips, even after he had lost consciousness.

About 70 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, including a nurse now being treated for the same Ebola virus that killed the Liberian man who was visiting Dallas, according to medical records his family provided to The Associated Press.[/quote]

:shock:  Why on earth would they need 70 staffers taking care of him?  It seems like the sensible thing to do would be to have a pretty limited number of people with any type of contact with the patient?! [/quote]

I understand the Dallas hospital is very well-regarded and it appears they did everything possible to save Duncan. But I wonder how much guidance their doctors had from doctors who have expertise in treating Ebola (i.e.: at Emory or the hospital in Nebraska). First, they allowed way too many workers to have contact with Duncan. Second, they intubated him and put him on dialysis, two very high-risk procedures as far as infection control - the CDC head said at his news conference that he wasn't aware of another Ebola patient who has been put on dialysis. Either the CDC left the Dallas hospital to fend on its own to try to prove a point - that any large hospital in the US can treat Ebola - or the Dallas doctors stubbornly refused to get or follow advice on Ebola treatment. I suspect its the first option.[/quote]

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